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Kit Carson Tree, for years local history buffs assumed the photo right showed triumphant tree fellers cutting down the Kit Carson tree at Carson pass. Then, in 1982 its real meaning was revealed. Those fellers were really hunters who came by after the deed was done
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Tragedy Spring, a closer view of the tree blazed by the Morman battalion members in 1848 to memorialize the murder of three brethren by Indians. To the memory of Daniel Browett, Ezrah H. Allen and Henderson Cox.
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Berry's Sawmill, sometime during the years 1929 to 1934 the photograph to the right was taken of the C.A.Berry and son's sawmill near Cook's station.The mill burned down in 1934, and another was built. It remained in operation until about 1960. It remains sort of a ghost town, its numerous worker's cabins empty and deteriorating at 4,200 feet in the Sierra.
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